https://www.thefp.com/p/im-28-and-im-scheduled-to-die
‘I’m 28. And I’m Scheduled to Die in May.’
- Some right-to-die activists want everyone to have access to euthanasia—even young people with mental illness. Are they also making suicide contagious?
By Rupa Subramanya
April 1, 2024
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Zoraya ter Beek, 28, expects to be euthanized in early May.
Her plan, she said, is to be cremated.
“I did not want to burden my partner with having to keep the grave tidy,” ter Beek texted me. “We have not picked an urn yet, but that will be my new house!”
She added an urn emoji after “house!”
Ter Beek, who lives in a little Dutch town near the German border, once had ambitions to become a psychiatrist, but she was never able to muster the will to finish school or start a career. She said she was hobbled by her depression and autism and borderline personality disorder. Now she was tired of living—despite, she said, being in love with her boyfriend, a 40-year-old IT programmer, and living in a nice house with their two cats.
She recalled her psychiatrist telling her that they had tried everything, that “there’s nothing more we can do for you. It’s never gonna get any better.”
At that point, she said, she decided to die. “I was always very clear that if it doesn’t get better, I can’t do this anymore.”
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I haver always thought that one of the rules in the “Game of Life” was that “You can’t leave early.”
As I have gotten older, maybe I’m wrong but how we treat and are treated should really value our humanity.
I’d sure like this person to find health and happiness. I’m not sure that suicide is the best or only course.
Sigh!
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Reinke Faces Life 